{"id":77167,"date":"2026-05-01T12:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T16:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=77167"},"modified":"2026-05-01T13:36:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T17:36:40","slug":"two-more-high-profile-games-say-no-to-genai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=77167","title":{"rendered":"Two More High-Profile Games Say No To GenAI"},"content":{"rendered":"

Subnautica 2 and 007: First Light, both of which release this month, were not made using generative AI technologies.<\/p>\n

First Light art director Rasmus Poulsen told Eurogamer<\/a> that it was decided based on a “combined discussion between core executives” at developer IO Interactive that the team would not use generative AI for the James Bond game.<\/p>\n

“I think it’s a large discussion. I’d rather not dive into the details, because it’s complicated,” Poulsen added.<\/p>\n

As for Subnautica 2, the game’s creative media producer Scott MacDonald told Eurogamer<\/a> that, “We’re not using generative AI in Subnautica 2 at all.” He said generative AI is an “interesting technology, but it’s not something we’re using at all.”<\/p>\n

In 2025, Subnautica developer Unknown Worlds’ owner Krafton said it was investing many millions of dollars to become an AI-first company<\/a>. MacDonald said what this meant for Subnautica 2 was that Krafton provided “all the tools” for AI if Unknown Worlds wanted to use them, and the studio decided doing so didn’t fit with the team’s vision.<\/p>\n

“I think [Krafton] is smart enough to know that if we had to use those tools it could be disruptive to our process at this point. So a mandate would be harmful to the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Subnautica 2 and 007: First Light, both of which release this month, were not made using generative AI technologies. First Light art director Rasmus Poulsen told Eurogamer that it was decided based on a “combined discussion between core executives” at developer IO Interactive that the team would not use generative AI for the James Bond…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":77169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-gamespot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77167"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77167"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77170,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77167\/revisions\/77170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}